Cartridge-loading machine



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P. A. WINTER.

CARTRIDGE LOADING MACHINE. N0.'289,592. Patented Dec. 4, 1883.

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. I. A. WINTER. CARTRIDGE LOADING MACHINE.

Patented Dec. 4, 1883.

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FREDERICK A. WINTER, OF THOMSON, GEORGIA.

CARTRIDGE-LOADING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,592, dated I ecember 4, 1883. Application filed Mayll], 1883. (X0 model.)

To to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. WINTER, of Thomson, county of McDuffie, Georgia, have invented a new and Improved Cartridge-Reloading Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists of an intermittinglyrotating horizontal disk containing cells for holding the cartridge-shells for filling them, with which disk I have contrived a novel feeding device for shifting it around as the cartridges are charged; also, a device for pressing in the wads and shot or bullets, as the case may be; and my invention also consists of attachments, in connection with the recharging mechanism, for crimping the cartridges when paper cartridges are used; also, attachments for capping and attachments for uncapping the cartridges, and also an attachment for holding the powder and shot flasks, in connection with the cartridge-holding disk, for convenience in manipulating them to charge the cartridges, all as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved machine partly in side elevation and partly in section. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 00 0c of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail in seetional elevation on the line 311 of Fig. 2, showing the method of crimping the paper shells. Fig. 4 is a section on line 2 z of Fig. 8, also illustrating the method of crimping the cups. Fig. 5 is a section of the feeding-ratchet and removable pivot of the cell-disk. Fig. 6 is a detail of the feeding-pawl in side elevation. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the flask-holding attachment, and Fig. 8 shows an attachment for seating bolts.

On any suitable base, a, I arrange a disk, I), of wood or metal, as preferred, to turn on a center-pivot, c, said disk having a series of holes, (I, bored through it from side to side in a circle around the margin, to form cells in which to set the cartridge-shells c (dotted) upright to be reloaded, the said shells resting on the surface of the bed-plate a, which has an annular rabbet, f, under the cells of the disk to allow the shells to rest suiliciently low in the disk, and a circular groove, 9, is provided in the face f for the caps h of the cartridges to run in, so as not to be exploded by the fric tion they would be subject to in case they were allowed to rub on the surface of the bed-plate.

Cartridges 0, that are used by firing the charges from them and reloading them for sub sequent use, for which the machine is mainly intended, also paper and other cartridges to be filled, are placed in the cells and chargedwith powder, shot, or balls and wads. They are then to be shifted under the wad-rammer i in succession. \Vhen the wads are properly pressed down by the lever j, to which the rammer is attached, the rammer being arranged in a guide-hole, 7c, in the foot of the arch I, consisting of two parallel beams attached at each end to a foot, m, resting on a vertical support, a, rising up from the base-plate. Thelever j is arranged between the two members or beams of the arch for guides, andis pivoted at 0 to a bracket, 1), of a center post, q, suspended between the beams of the arch over the center of the disk to hold the upper end of the vertical pivot 0, around which the disk turns. Besides working the wad rannner, the lever j is also employed to shift the disk around successively by the teeth 8 of a crown-wheel 1, located on the disk, and the pawl a, attached to the lever. To enable the lever j, which works verticallyto operate the wad-rammer, to turn the disk horizontally, the teeth 8 are pitched obliquely on the upper face of the crown-wheel, so that the point of the pawl moving radially through the spaces between them, and acting on one of the inclined sides of one of said teeth, will force the disk around. The teeth are also pointed at theinn or ends, so that the pawl, being j ointed at o,will swing past the points for passing from one tooth to another. The joint 1 is shouldered at '20, so that when the lever j is shifted upward to withdraw the wad-rammer, the pawl a, swinging outward between the teeth of the crown-wheel, will shift the disk to the right hand, and when the lever j is thrust down to force down the rammer the pawl will turn on its pivot e and swing back over the tooth into the next groove preparatory to shifting the disk again on the next rise of the lever j.

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The pawl uissecured to the lever j by a clamp bolt, 00, having a flat-sided shoulder, 1 in the slot 2 of the pawl, to prevent the latter from turning, and the slot allows the pawl to be shifted up and down for setting it with relation to the teeth 8. Y

For enabling the cell-disk to be taken out readily and others to be put in having cells of different sizes for cartridges of different sizes, the center pivot, c, has a flat head, a, with a curved edge, I), and is fitted in a correspondingly-shaped groove in one side of the post q, where it is secured at its upper end by the ring 0, which slides up on thelower end of the post, fitting snugly thereon, and

also fitting the outer edge of the head a, so as to hold it securely in the post. The ring 0 is slipped down-from the end of the post 011 the wheel 15, as indicated by the dotted lines,when th'epivot is to be removed. The lower end of the pivot is'fitted in a' step, d, in the bed- 1iiece, to which a sloping groove, 6, leads in the radial plane of the groove in the post for th'eheadof the pivot to facilitate the placing A spring-stop, f, is arranged to catch in notches or holes in the periphery of the disk to stop and h'oldit'in the right position for the rammer to enter the cartridge.

Ipropose'to provide the rammer-rod "i with interchangeable ends 2' vi", as shown in Figs; 1 and 8, and in different forms, as required, for ranimi'ng pistol or rifle cartridges with balls, which may be charged in this machine as well as shot cartridges to be rammed with wads, the machine being adapted by the use of disks with cells of proper size and different'forms of rammer-heads to load or charge any kind of shell that is reloadable.

on the opposite side of the machine I ha've arranged devices for crimping papjer shells, capping and uncap'ping shells, as follows: At 9 is an upright stud adapted to set up the paper shells by inverting them and placing the open-end down 011 the stud. Said stud is fixed on -a pivot, h, wh'ereon'it may swin -down to lay-the shell in the crimping-die 2', over which isanother die, j, in a lever, pivoted to the bed-diet" at-Z to be swung down 011 the-shell to crimp it, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4, by the ribs m" of T said dies. its upright position on 'its pivot h to receive the cartridges more readily than if lying down in the dies. It has an extension, 41/, down the side of the base 0 to preventit from swinging back too far and straining th'epivot, and also to maintain it'more substantially in its upright position.

For recapping the cartridges, I have pro} vided the socket holderp, under the lever 70 and "in front of the crimpingdies in which the cartridgesare'to be placed bottom up, with a cap? set at the hole in the bottom whereinthe cap is tobe'press'ed, so that the c g Ver 7Q llTZLS ILlSO be used, by Swingi it down on the cap, to force it into the cartridge; and

The stud g swings back to to utilize the same lever for uncapping, I have provided it with a pusher, g, that may, when required, be swung down anddropped into the cartridge when said cartridge is resting in socket p,with its bottom down, to press out the cap by springing the bottom of the cartridge down, as represented in dotted lines, Fig. 3, to cause the cap to fall out and escape through the hole 8 in the bottom of the socket 1). To connect this pusher with the lever is, so as to remain with it when not in use without interfering with the use of the lever for crimping and capping the shells, I have recessed the front or under side of the lever from -t to t for a space in said lever to lay thepusher and connected the pusher to pivot-studs u by the wire loops 2), which project into recesses 10 in the sides of the lever and hold the pusher up along with the lever when the'pusher is not to be used butsaid wireloops allow the'outer end of the pusher to be sprung out'of the recess t, to pullsaid loops out'of the recesses, ,which allows the pusher to swing down and drop into the cartridge-shells to push out'the caps,"as before stated.

I"prop,osef to pivot the powder-charging" flask'a-, and the shot-charging flask b upon the wire supports 0 which are suspended on the top of the post q, the wire supports being extended down to such proximity to the car tridge-sh'ells that they may be charged from the flasks by tilting up said flasks and pourling the powder and shot into the cartridges ,while placed in the disk I). Inp'ractice there will be aslide-door inthe bottom of the machine to let the shells drop ou't'when loaded, and the rammer-rod will have aspring to hold it up when not in use.

Having thus described my invention, I'claim as new and'desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. Thecombination, ina cartridge-1oader, of the inter'mittiugly-rotating cell-disk 1), base a, and a rammer, i,the'said cell-disk being arran'gedon the vertical pivot-stud 0, stepped in thebase a, and said base having the'c'apgroove 9, substantially as described. Y

2. In a cartridge-loader, the combination ofthe crown-wheel 25, supported on suitable bearings, having pointed and oblique teeth 3 on its upper surface, and the lever j, pivoted to'the upright post (1, having the rammer i, and the iced-pawl attached to it, the said pawl and crown-wheel teeth being arranged in relation toeach other, whereby the lever working vertically to actuate the rammer turns the disk horizontally, as described.

In a cartridge-loader, the vertically-operating leverj, pivoted to the upright post'q, jointed feed-paw1 16, attached thereto, and the '.ob1iquely-toothed horizontal feed-wheel t, suitably supported, combined, and arranged, substantially as hereinbefore described, tofeed said" wheel horizontally by working lever.

4. In a eartridgeloader, the combination,

the verticallywith the feed-wheel 2, suitably supported and provided with oblique teeth 8, and the lever j, pivoted to the post q, of the jointed pawl a, adj ustably secured to the said lever, and having shoulder w at its joint, substantially as herein shown and described.

5. In a cartridge-loader, the combination, with the tilting eartridge stud of the crimping-dies t j, provided with the crimping-ribs m, and the lever 7t, substantially as herein shown and described.

6. 111 a cartridge-loader, the combination of the socket 1), provided with the aperture 8 in its bottom, and arranged in front of the crimping-dies, the lever It, carrying one and pivoted to the bed-piece of the other of said dies, and the push-rod q, pivoted to the lever is, above the cartridge-supporting socket, whereby he latter lever may be operative for uncapping, capping, and crimping the cartridge, substantially herein shown and described.

7. In a cartridge-loader, the combination, with the crimping-lever 75, arranged to project over the cartridge-socket p, and provided with the recess ton its under side, the side recesses, w, and the pivot-stud a, of the uncapping-pusher q, provided with the loops e, fitting into the side recesses and over the pivot-pin, substantially as herein shown and de;

scribed, whereby the pusher can be held to* the crimping-lever when not in use, as set forth.

8. In a cartridge-loader, the combination, with cartridge-holding disk Z) and center post, q, of the supports 0 secured to said center post, and the chai'gingfiasks'a Z)", pivoted between said supports, substantially as herein shown and described.

FREDERICK A. IVIN'IER.

Vitnesses:

A. B. THRASI-IER, J AS. 13. NEAL. 

